The Veterans World Freestyle Championships will be streamed live on TrackWrestling. Skopje is six hours ahead of U.S. Eastern time zone.

The Team Leader is two-time Veterans World Greco-Roman champion Chris Brown of Maryland, who is also a member of USA Wrestling’s Associated Styles Committee. Helping coach the team is Jon McGovern of Iowa, who is the head coach at the University of Dubuque.

Next week, the Veterans World Greco-Roman Championships will be held in Perm, Russia, October 5-7. A number of the athletes competing this week in Skopje will also wrestle in Greco-Roman in Perm.

Results from both of the UWW Veterans World Championships will score points towards USA Wrestling’s Masters Ironman standings. At these events, World champions score 20 points, World silver medalists 14 points, World bronze medalists 8 points and World fourth-place finishers (or fifth if there are two bronze medalists) two points. The current leaders of the Masters Ironman standings are Jeffrey Anderson of Michigan and Gabe Beauperthuy of Colorado.

VETERANS WORLD FREESTYLE CHAMPIONSHIPS
At Skopje, Macedonia, September 28-30